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- From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.)
- Subject: Re: Kudos to NOW for 4.0 Startup Manager
- Message-ID: <aland.715963776@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:49:36 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams) writes:
-
- >>>Anyway, I just wanted to publically acknowledge my admiration for Now
- >Utilities 4.0
-
- >Are you nuts? This is a programming related news group!!! If you
- >accidentally "cross posted to "comp.sys.mac.programmer" then I am sorry,
- >but if you did this on purpose you are quite offensive. Besides, only the
- >crudest of INITS from MANY YEARS BACK do not adhere to the current SHOW
- >INIT standards to show theire inits on the screen in correct marching order.
- >A more serious flaw of programs that do show their inits is the fact that
- >they draw them after they have run and not during (when crashing it is
- >very offesive).
-
- No, I'm not nuts. There had recently been a discussion on
- comp.sys.mac.programmer explaining just _why_ some inits don't
- properly wrap. I have INITS from 1992 which caused the startup
- display order to jump around (Norton Filesaver, I believe, is one of
- them). Relevance to a current discussion is a really _good_ reason to
- post something to a newsgroup.
-
- Now, you, on the other hand, while flaming me for posting something
- you feel is inappropriate to a _programmer_ group, failed to edit the
- distribution. So your comment, 'this is a programming related news
- group' was posted to comp.sys.mac.{system, apps} as well as
- csm.programmer.
-
- I don't agree that the inits should show icons during processing...
- I thought that drawing the icon afterwards was a good thing, because
- it showed that you (the init) loaded successfully.
-
- -=Alan
- random flames to /dev/null
-